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@LC, glad to have you in our community and welcome to the big world of big data! I actually spent several of my early years in my IT career at Nortel Networks up in Dallas, telecom is a fast-moving industry!

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I am Swamy Kulkarni working as Product Manager in Thomson Reuters. I have been into data warehouse/data management domain for over 10 years, initially within personal finance and then mostly into Capital Markets (Market Data) space. My technical expertise has been with data modeling and SQL queries. I am primarily a product person focussing on management side of it.

And right now (quite laboriously) I getting hands on with Cloudera/Spark to figure out if some of our structured/time series data management problems/needs can be defined as 'our' big data problem and how Cloudera can solve it.

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I'm pretty new in Cloudera world.I got in touch with Cloudera's world during an Hadoop course based on Cloudera VM, which was offered by my Company (Engineering SpA, Italy).I am a physicist: driven by my PhD in particle physics, I approached the world of big data and data mining techninques (a quitefamiliar environement for those having working in particle physics, indeed..). In particular, recently I was engaged in projects for data miningfor a medical research center.My interests span over books, history of science, knowledge and philosphy. I am a passionate runner and cyclist.Excited to learn more and understand how data may change lives in better!

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15+ years of relevant experience with leading IT organizations & Global CSPs in Solution Design, Consulting, Pre Sales and Delivery topped up with technical, analytical and financial proficiency, will align with the requirements of your organization’s goals & Objectives.

Currently working with Tech Mahindra Limited, India as Principal Solution Architect – DSS & BSS. In this Role, I drive the Technology Strategy for TechM in the DSS (Business Analytics) & BSS areas, creates Industry wide presence of TechM thought leadership and aligns TechM Solutions delivery to the Strategy through continuous engagement with internal stakeholders, external industry bodies and TechM’ s current and prospective Customers.

Prior to this role I worked at Bharti Airtel Limited, India as GlobalHead - Internal Applications for India, South Asia & Africa where role was to handle Global IT Operations while delivering seamless customer experience, quality, cost optimization and responsiveness and ensuring highest level of service delivery across various business units/ Across geographies.